As was his custom, after every session of lovemaking, he took her into his arms and held her close, savouring the perfumed smell of her.

Closer up there was a clean, faintly perfumed smell, feminine without a doubt and some-how dainty and delicate.

Some part of him, remembering the Stim - the awful, degrading feel of it - wanted to draw back, to refuse what was being offered here, but the sheer proximity of her, the warmth, the perfumed smell of her, was like a trigger, freeing him from restraint.

He didn't like the perfumed smell of the diplomats and he didn't like having servants around.

Metcalfe could smell the perfumed smell of stage makeup.

The water had an almost perfumed smell.

After the perfumed smell of the vaults, the stench of the city was nearly overwhelming.

When dampened by monsoon rains, the mats give off a sweet, perfumed smell long popular in upper-class Indian households.

I'd be hard-pushed to guess the variety from the gently perfumed smell and peachy taste but there's something in the way the wine hangs, like a dress on a model, that feels right for pinot.

He didn't like the feel of the container or the heavily perfumed smell of melange around it.